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Al-Jazairi AS, Shorog EM, Owaidah TM, Al Dalaty H, Alheriash YA, Almehizia RA, Alahmadi MD. Performance Assessment of Anti-Xa Assay-Based Heparin Dosing Protocol in Pediatric Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2023; 14:723-728. [PMID: 37654250 DOI: 10.1177/21501351231178761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in the postoperative cardiac critical care setting is evolving. Anticoagulation monitoring is among the most challenging aspects of pediatrics. However, there is no consensus on the optimal dosing and monitoring of unfractionated heparin in this setting. To address this, we developed an anti-Xa assay-based protocol derived from the best available clinical and anecdotal evidence of ECMO use and assessed its effectiveness in achieving the anti-Xa assay therapeutic target. METHODS This prospective single-arm study was conducted in the pediatric carcardiac-surgery intensive care unit of a large tertiary hospital. We used two different anti-Xa assay intensity levels based on the patients' bleeding status. RESULTS The median patient age was 7 (interquartile range [IQR]: 5-11.25) months, and the median weight was 5.7 (IQR: 3.8-13.82) kg. The median ECMO duration was 6 (IQR: 4.5-7.5) days. The bleeding protocol was used for most patients. Seventy percent achieved the anti-Xa assay therapeutic target during the study period (median: 75.5 h, IQR: 60.5-117.5 h). Hemorrhagic complications were reported in 40% of the patients, and thrombotic complications were reported in 25%. The median length of stay was 37 (IQR: 22-43) days, with a survival-to-discharge rate of 75%. CONCLUSIONS Despite a failure to achieve the anti-Xa assay target within the first ECMO days, most patients achieved the target by the median ECMO duration. Moreover, using two different anti-Xa assay levels reduced thrombotic complications.
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- Abdulrazaq S Al-Jazairi
- Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pharmaceutical Care Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Clinical Pharmacy Department, King Khalid University, College of Pharmacy, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Cardiovascular Nursing, Department of Nursing Affairs, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pharmaceutical Care Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Heart Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Snyder AN, Cheng T, Burjonrappa S. A nationwide database analysis of demographics and outcomes related to Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Pediatr Surg Int 2021; 37:1505-1513. [PMID: 34398295 DOI: 10.1007/s00383-021-04979-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of the study was to understand the use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) and its outcomes. METHODS The 2016 Kid's Inpatient Database (KID) obtained from the national Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) was used to obtain CDH birth, demographic, and outcome data associated with ECMO use. Categorical variables were analyzed and odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) are reported for variables found to have significance (p < 0.05). Appropriate regressions were used for comparing categorical and continuous data using SPSS 25 for Macintosh. RESULTS The database contained 1189 cases of CDH, of which 133 (11.2%) received ECMO. The overall mortality of neonates with CDH was 18.9% (225/1189). Newborns with CDH on ECMO had a survival of 46% (61/133) compared to 85.5% without ECMO (903/1056) (OR 6.966, p < 0.001, 95% CI 4.756-10.204). ECMO increased length of stay from 24.6 to 69.8 days (OR 2.834, p < 0.001, 95% CI 2.768-2.903) and average cost from $375,002.20 to $1641,586.83 (OR 4.378, p < 0.001, 95% CI 3.341-5.735). CONCLUSIONS Increased length of stay, costs, and outcomes with ECMO use in CDH should prompt an examination of criteria necessitating ECMO.
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- Alana N Snyder
- University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, 12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, 12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Division Chief of Adolescent Obesity Surgery, RWJ Medical School, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 504 MEB, 1 RWJ Place, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
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Brown G, Moynihan KM, Deatrick KB, Hoskote A, Sandhu HS, Aganga D, Deshpande SR, Menon AP, Rozen T, Raman L, Alexander PMA. Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO): Guidelines for Pediatric Cardiac Failure. ASAIO J 2021; 67:463-475. [PMID: 33788796 DOI: 10.1097/mat.0000000000001431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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These guidelines are applicable to neonates and children with cardiac failure as indication for extracorporeal life support. These guidelines address patient selection, management during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and pathways for weaning support or bridging to other therapies. Equally important issues, such as personnel, training, credentialing, resources, follow-up, reporting, and quality assurance, are addressed in other Extracorporeal Life Support Organization documents or are center-specific.
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- Georgia Brown
- From the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Cardiorespiratory and Critical Care Division, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Division, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Pediatric Cardiology Division, Heart Transplant and Advanced Cardiac Therapies Program, Children's National Heart Institute, Washington, D.C
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- Children's Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatric Subspecialties, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
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- From the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Critical Care, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Texas
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Gu M, Mei XL, Zhao YN. A review on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and kidney injury. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 2020; 35:e22679. [PMID: 33325616 DOI: 10.1002/jbt.22679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Revised: 10/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is inevitable external life support in case of cardiac and respiratory failure since the 1970s. Acute kidney injury (AKI) and the requirement of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a potential risk among these patients. This review aims to give an overview of the risk of AKI, RRT, and associated mortality among the patients who received ECMO for any of its indications. PubMed database was searched to find the relevant literature and the reference list of included studies was also searched for additional studies. The incidence of AKI ranged from 30% to 78% and RRT from 47% to 60% in ECMO patients. The pathophysiology of AKI in ECMO is multifactorial, and includes ischaemia, RBCs breakdown, comorbidity, conversion of zymogen form of pro-inflammatory mediators, structural alteration of the kidney, coadministration of nephrotoxic drugs, coagulation abnormality, and oxidative stress. ECMO was associated with the higher incidence of renal abnormalities, AKI, requirement of RRT, and associated mortality. Patients who underwent RRT had improved renal function and reduced overall mortality compared to the non-RRT group among the ECMO patients. Currently, there is no consensus evidence to support the superior use of the inline hemofilter system over continuous renal replacement therapy among patients who had AKI during ECMO.
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- Ming Gu
- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Department of Pathology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Neurology Department, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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Early Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children Supported with ECMO for Cardiac Indications. Pediatr Cardiol 2019; 40:1072-1083. [PMID: 31079193 PMCID: PMC6876703 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-019-02115-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is lifesaving for many critically ill children with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, limited information is available about their ensuing neurodevelopmental (ND) outcomes. We describe early ND outcomes in a cohort of children supported with ECMO for cardiac indications. Twenty-eight patients supported with ECMO at age < 36 months underwent later ND testing at 12-42 months of age using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III). ND scores were compared with normative means and with ND outcomes of a matched cohort of 79 children with CHD undergoing cardiac surgery but not requiring ECMO support. Risk factors for worse ND outcomes were identified using multivariable linear regression models. Cardiac ECMO patients had ND scores at least one standard deviation below the normative mean in the gross motor (61%), language (43%), and cognitive (29%) domains of the Bayley-III. Cardiac ECMO patients had lower scores on the motor, language, and cognitive domains as compared to the matched non-ECMO group and clinically important (1/2 SD) differences in the motor domain persisted after controlling for primary caregiver education and number of cardiac catheterizations. Risk factors of worse ND outcomes among cardiac ECMO patients in more than one developmental domain included older age at first cannulation and more cardiac catheterization and cardiac surgical procedures prior to ND assessment. Overall, children supported on ECMO for cardiac indications have significant developmental delays and warrant close ND follow-up.
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Mechanical circulatory support using modified TandemHeart ventricular assist device in neonates with CHD. Cardiol Young 2018; 28:1361-1362. [PMID: 30152304 DOI: 10.1017/s1047951118001245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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TandemHeart, an adult ventricular assist device, is also being used in children for mechanical circulatory support. In this case series, we describe our experience using TandemHeart ventricular assist device with a modified circuit to provide mechanical circulatory support in three neonates for multiple indications. TandemHeart ventricular assist device with a modified circuit can be used successfully to provide extracorporeal support to neonates with complex CHD.
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Bacon MK, Gray SB, Schwartz SM, Cooper DS. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Support in Special Patient Populations-The Bidirectional Glenn and Fontan Circulations. Front Pediatr 2018; 6:299. [PMID: 30386759 PMCID: PMC6199392 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2018.00299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a support modality used within the pediatric cardiac ICU population as a bridge to recovery or decision in the setting of acute myocardial decompensation, support for combined cardiopulmonary failure or in the setting of refractory cardiopulmonary arrest. Patients with univentricular physiology are at particular risk for decompensation requiring ECMO support. This review will focus upon current evidence and techniques for ECMO support of single ventricle patients who have undergone a stage II bidirectional Glenn procedure or the stage III Fontan procedure.
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- Matthew K Bacon
- The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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The Evolution of a Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device Program: The Boston Children's Hospital Experience. Pediatr Cardiol 2017; 38:1032-1041. [PMID: 28456829 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-017-1615-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Mechanical circulatory support in the form of ventricular assist devices (VADs) in children has undergone rapid growth in the last decade. With expansion of device options available for larger children and adolescents, the field of outpatient VAD support has flourished, with many programs unprepared for the clinical, programmatic, and administrative responsibilities. From preimplantation VAD evaluation and patient education to postimplant VAD management, the VAD program, staffed with an interdisciplinary team, is essential to providing safe, effective, and sustainable care for a new technology in an exceedingly complex patient population. Herein, this paper describes the Boston Children's Hospital VAD experience over a decade and important lessons learned from developing a pediatric program focusing on a high-risk but low-volume population. We highlight the paramount role of the VAD coordinator, clinical infrastructure requirements, as well as innovation in care spanning inpatient and outpatient VAD supports at Boston Children's Hospital.
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Mendonca M. Neonatal VA ECMO: Why and how? Qatar Med J 2017. [PMCID: PMC5474602 DOI: 10.5339/qmj.2017.swacelso.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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- Malaika Mendonca
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Accomplishments and Important New Initiatives. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2016; 17:709. [PMID: 27500611 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000000925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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